Krista: Coolness! Someone likes this! Thank you, PsynergyMaster and Steeple333 for the wonderful reviews. And yes, I am continuing it. Without any further rambling, here's chapter two!

Chapter Two: Link, Swords, and Force Gems

"Ohhhhh..."

"Ow..."

"That hurt!"

"Finally, you three are awake." Hope, Faith, and Patience looked up from their positions on the ground at Link. The young man was seated on a rock, watching them with an expression that featured a cross between curiosity and edginess. It seemed as if he had been awake much longer than the sisters have.

"Where are we?" Hope looked around uncertainly as the sisters got up with a few aches and pains.

"What just happened?" Patience asked.

"What am I wearing?!" Hope and Patience glared at Faith. The middle sister blinked at them. "What? I don't like this outfit!" She was wearing a red tunic with white leggings and brown, leather boots. The other two had the same thing, except Hope was in blue and Patience was all in purple. Faith's hair was in a high ponytail, Patience's pigtails were neater, and Hope's hair was down since it was short.

"I don't mind it that much," Hope said, twisting her body slightly to inspect herself. Faith rolled her eyes.

"It feels like a skirt," she muttered disdainfully.

"Aww...!"

"What is it, Patience?" Hope asked.

"We don't have any cute hats like Link does!" the youngest said, complaining.

"Thank God," Faith mumbled under her breath.

"Um, hello...?" Link asked, trying to get the girls' attention.

"Hi! How ya doing?" Patience shot back. Faith and Hope nudged her to knock it off.

"Uh, good, I guess," Link answered, looking at her like she was nuts. "Anyway," he went on, "aren't you girls wondering what you're doing here?"

"Standing." This time it was Faith's turn to be nudged. Link's shoulders drooped.

"So, I'm hopin--er, guessing that you three aren't copies of me?" he asked.

Faith scoffed with a bit of a smirk playing on her lips. "Definitely not."

"We're just three sisters from another world who somehow got here," Hope explained as if it happened every day. "My name's Hope. I'm the oldest."

"My name's Patience. I'm the youngest!" Patience said, her voice echoing through the clearing the four were in.

"I kind of guessed that." Link uncovered his ears.

"Patience is a really good name for her," Faith told him.

"Why, thank y--" Patience started to say.

"It's what most people need when they're around her."

"--Wait, what?" Patience looked at her older sister, confused. Hope rolled her eyes.

"And you are...?" Link asked.

"Name's Faith."

"Pleased to meet you."

"Ditto."

"Cool!" Everyone looked at Patience as she proceeded to hack the evil bush to pieces. "We got swords!" Hope and Faith pulled theirs out of the sheaths on their backs. The oldest one just looked at it, while Faith grinned.

"Awesome..." she whispered to herself and joined Patience in cutting the grass.

"So, uh," Hope started to say to Link, "what are we supposed to do here?" Link, glad that someone was interested in hearing about their quest, answered:

"Well, Kaepora Gaebora said to---"

"Who's that?" Patience all of a sudden reappeared beside them, making the Hylian teenager jump.

"The owl dude," Faith answered, coming up behind her. Patience, looking amazed, stared at Link.

"No kidding?" she asked. "You can actually pronounce his name?"

"Uh, yeah..." Link looked a little nervous.

"Stop staring, Patience. You're scaring him," Faith commanded, oblivious to Link's glare.

"Let him finish!" Hope told her sisters.

"Um, anyway," Link continued, "he said to start our quest to save the maidens and Princess Zelda, we need to start collecting force gems to power up our swords. And--"

"Hee, hee, hee, force gems!" Patience laughed evilly. Link arched his eyebrows. Hope sighed.

"You'll get used to it," she said. "Continue, please."

"Uh, okay, he also told us to be careful because there are a lot of enemies around," he finally finished. Faith did a spin attack with her sword, since she just figured out how to do it, and said:

"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go save a maiden!" She cut the last patch of grass and...

"FORCE GEM!!" Patience yelled, startling everyone, as she dived for the little green gem. She grabbed it and looked at everyone. "Okay, we can go now. Lead the way Link!"

"...Right..." Link started to go west and the trio of sisters followed.

Krista: Please bare with me, since this is my first humor fic. Okay, hope you enjoyed it and don't forget to review!